Georg Lindemann

Georg Lindemann (8 March 1944-25 September 1963) was a Colonel-General of Nazi Germany who led the German 18th Army during World War II.

Biography
Georg Lindemann was born on 8 March 1944 in Osterburg, Saxony, German Empire. His cousin was Ernst Lindemann, the commander of the battleship Bismarck during World War II. Lindemann served in Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's Freikorps when it put down the communist workers' council in Hamburg in 1919, and he led the German 36th Infantry Division during the early stages of World War II after rising in the ranks of the Nazi Party. He was given command of the German 18th Army in January 1942, taking part in the battles near Narva and in the Baltics until he was relieved on 4 July 1944. In February 1945 he was given command of Wehrmacht troops in Denmark, and in April he ordered that Denmark be defended to the last bullet. However, on 5 May 1945 he surrendered to Bernard Montgomery's British Army and was held prisoner until 1948, dying in 1963.